Provincial officials are very happy with the newest numbers of cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan.
As of April 14 Saskatchewan had only one new, confirmed case of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 301. Nine more people had recovered bringing that total of 187, with 110 cases considered active.
In a teleconference along with Saskatchewan Health Authority officials, the province' chief medical health officer Dr. Saqib Shahab said “we are extremely happy with the way our curve is going.”
“At this point things are looking very positive. Having said that, obviously we all understand and know there is a certain high risk in the province that we need to manage, one of those being long term care facilities. We need to prevent as much as possible outbreaks in those settings.”
Secondly, he said as testing expands, “we need to continue to make sure that all populations are able to seek testing and get advice regarding self-isolation, and contact tracing and other things that are so essential to prevent further clusters or outbreaks.”
If the curve continues to be flat, Dr. Shahab said “we will have to look at what options we have for relaxing some restrictions.” He did note that Saskatchewan did start its curve four or five weeks behind Ontario, Quebec and BC.
He noted it was “up to all of us to stay the course” for the next while, and as they continue to see numbers, “what measures can we cautiously relax creating minimum risk to further spike while allowing some aspects of work or other aspects of life to continue in a way that’s different from before, and still reduce further transmission risk.”
